Browser Hub Demo

Web Share API

This closes the gap between websites and mobile apps for distribution, referrals, handoff, and cross-app workflows.

Native utilities

What this unlocks

Hand off links, text, and sometimes files to the device’s native share sheet. Common on mobile browsers and increasingly available on desktop. If unavailable, copy-link and mailto fallbacks still cover the core job.

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Web Share API

Hand off links, text, and sometimes files to the device’s native share sheet.

This is most useful on mobile, where share sheets can hand off directly to messaging apps, notes apps, saved destinations, and nearby devices.

Referral-ready artifact

Modern browsers can ship native-feeling handoff

Share this page into messaging, notes, or other apps with one explicit action instead of making users copy and paste their own URLs.

Share a link through the device share sheet or copy it manually.

Use cases

Real product scenarios

These are the kinds of workflows where the API earns its complexity.

Invite flows and referral links.

Web Share API helps when the browser needs to move beyond plain navigation and forms.

Sharing saved articles, locations, or wishlists.

Web Share API helps when the browser needs to move beyond plain navigation and forms.

Passing generated artifacts into chat, mail, or notes apps.

Web Share API helps when the browser needs to move beyond plain navigation and forms.

Shipping notes

Progressive enhancement rules

Browser capability work is product design work. Support levels, permissions, secure context requirements, and fallback behavior matter as much as the demo itself.

Feature support differs between text sharing and file sharing.

Common on mobile browsers and increasingly available on desktop. If unavailable, copy-link and mailto fallbacks still cover the core job.

Keep the payload small and the intent explicit.

Common on mobile browsers and increasingly available on desktop. If unavailable, copy-link and mailto fallbacks still cover the core job.

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